Dell Inspiron 700M - Manual (Page 5)

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7 Using PC Cards
PC Card Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
PC Card Blanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Extended PC Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Removing a PC Card or Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Installing a PC Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
8 Setting Up a Home and Office Network
Connecting to a Network Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Network Setup Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Connecting to a Wireless Local Area Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Determining Your Network Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Connecting to a Wireless Network in Microsoft
®
Windows
®
XP . . . . . 45
9 Solving Problems
Dell Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
When to Use the Dell Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Starting the Dell Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
What Is a Driver? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Identifying Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Reinstalling Drivers and Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Resolving Software and Hardware Incompatibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Restoring Your Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Using Microsoft Windows XP System Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Using Dell PC Restore by Symantec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
CD and DVD drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
If you cannot eject the CD, CD-RW, DVD, or DVD+RW drive tray . . . . . 55
If you hear an unfamiliar scraping or grinding sound . . . . . . . . . . 56
Hard drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56